selective mutism

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selective mutism

A time to keep silent

1993
When thirteen-year-old Clair's relationship with her minister father changes after her mother's death, she stops speaking, and the subsequent events change both their lives.

The silent storm

1993
Thirteen-year-old Alyssa has not spoken since seeing her parents die in a hurricane, and now, three years later, another storm threatens the home she shares with her grandfather on Galveston Island.

LightLand

2004
Twelve-year-old Lottie and her best friend Lewis, who speaks only to her, find themselves in a world called LightLand, where they confront the dreaded NightKing, a dangerous being who experiments with the energies of memory.

Champlain and the Silent One

2008
In the winter of 1609, with his people starving, the Innu Indian called Silent One must overcome his reluctance to speak and trust Samuel de Champlain and his Frenchmen in order to save his brother and regain his own spirit.

Straw sense

1993
An old man who makes dolls breaks through the loneliness of a young boy who doesn't speak.

Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks

1987
Two sixth graders with a pretend psychiatry practice come upon a small mute child from an orphanage and determine they are going to use all their knowledge to help her to talk.

The Color of silence

2013
Seventeen-year-old Alex decides not to speak and blames herself for the car accident that took her best friend, Cali, until she meets Joanie at a hospital who does not speak and has minimal control of her body.

Frozen

2012
Unable to speak or remember the events surrounding her mother's mysterious death eleven years earlier, sixteen-year-old Sadie Rose, the foster child of a corrupt senator in 1920s northern Minnesota, struggles to regain her voice, memory, and identity.

The silence of murder

2012
When the local baseball coach is murdered, sixteen-year-old Hope Long's mute brother is accused of the crime. Hope is certain that he did not commit the murder and embarks on a mission to uncover the truth, becoming a voice for her voiceless brother.

Ghosts don't get goose bumps

1993
Vacationing on a farm in West Virginia near the haunted glass factory where crazy old Irwin Loop used to make marbles, eleven-year-old Jenna decides to use the place to shock her mute younger brother into talking.

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